Tim Gossett and his colleague Steven Berlanga are Backend Developers for the Real-Time Platform Group at Citrix. They build services to enable collaborative web and mobile apps, and built three open source projects with Firebase and Go.

If you're new to Ember or the Ember CLI, this video will walk you through Ember's core concepts and the basics of developing with the CLI. In 9 minutes you'll learn how to build a chat application that uses EmberFire to persist data.

A few weeks ago we had an internal hackathon at Google, and my team took the opportunity to give Firebase a try. We built a multiplayer game where players use Android phones to control a web app on a big screen.

Private backups is an advanced feature for customers on our Bonfire plan or above that regularly extracts Firebase data directly from Firebase servers and uploads it into a customer's Google Cloud Storage or Amazon S3 bucket.

Ever wondered about the magic behind Firebase's push IDs? We get many questions from our developers about how our uniquely generated IDs work under the hood and in this post I'll explain them in more detail.